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Dr. Orna Izakson

@orna.bsky.social

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Climate, polycrisis, mental health, functional medicine, 🌱🌲🌻🌼. Pro-science licensed naturopathic dr (OR/AK), herbalist, ex environmental journalist. Love 🥾and 📷 wild places. 💔 about 🌎. 1st-gen US, 🇮🇱 fam. Born 320ppm. #Angret. She/her/doctor. NDClimate.org

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · Nov 14

For the past year I’ve been gathering resources on the climate crisis and its effects on health, mental health, food and herbal medicines. Find those resources here: ndclimate.org

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#ClimateCrisis #NaturopathicClimateAlliance #ClimateMentalHealth #HerbalMedicine

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 9h

Watching live coverage here: www.youtube.com/live/cCHEY1d...

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astro @astrorocks.bsky.social · 14h

#portland emergency, world naked, bike ride does a die in on the Burnside bridge Sunday October 12, before they hit the ice facility. I love my city. Sorry I couldn’t make it out today. I was coming down with a cold! This is in my neighborhood props to everybody that did it!! we love you!!

Portland naked bike ride does it die in of naked, bike riders laying down and dying on the Portland bridge?

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve read both of these. I hope you follow John Scalzi here.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 21h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 18h

And this is why I have a hard time with nonfiction. It becomes work!

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 23h

I just got the audiobook back again from the library. Also almost done. I need to get a hard copy of this one.

Also, one of the folks she interviews teaches at my undergrad university. We didn’t overlap, but I’m thinking of sending fan mail.

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 23h

Which of the hostages did they *not* fail?

Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 23h

12 hours. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 1d

Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office in an official statement:

“We expect the hostages to be transferred to the Red Cross tomorrow, Monday morning at around 6am (IST)- but we are also prepared for an earlier handover.”

Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 23h

🤦🏻‍♀️😩

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Help me out here. When did Biden take office? Who was the FBI director on January 6th? Who appointed that FBI director?

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 23h

Have you read The Light Eaters yet? Phenomenal.

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 23h

(I do know that. And he’s doing some courageous stuff right now. But I don’t want to elevate him any further at the moment.(

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

Have you tried ivermectin for that?

(JOKE)

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon Governor @tinakotek.bsky.social talks with whatsisname from California. The guy with the hair?

#PortlandIsNotAWarZone

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

*pawpaw

Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

#DoomScrollBreak.

#PoppawSeason

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

A must read.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/w...

A Memo in a Bunker, Intercepted Communications and Hamas’s Oct. 7 Plans

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

If they’re my friends, they already know. The question (always) is how to reach beyond our bubbles. And how to get them to believe, I don’t know, facts and evidence?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

"The bird gained global fame Oct. 7, when right-wing influencer Benny Johnson posted video of U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stepping onto the ICE facility’s roof and staring down a handful of hecklers—and one chicken."

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

More frog memes.

Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

I have an elderly friend who lives basically right under the helicopters — across the river from the actual ICE site. It’s giving her panic attacks and keeping her from sleeping. (Not the noise, but the panic it engenders.)

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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 2d

For the 2nd week in a row, the federal shutdown has blocked disease surveillance reporting. So Team Force of Infection again visited all 50 state websites to track COVID, flu & RSV. caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/outbreak-o...

Outbreak Outlook: Week 2 of DIY Surveillance

State by state disease surveillance of COVID-19, influenza and RSV amid federal public health cuts

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Phytomaven @tmigratorius.bsky.social · 2d

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All reports during the shutdown will be free for everyone. Please share this post so others can find it.

Force of Infection
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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 2d

Helmets are recommended. The rest is up to the individual. It’s going to be raining, and organizers recommend clear plastic rain ponchos.

Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 2d

More over the top is coming. And people will get hurt and worse. The people who don’t believe it yet probably won’t believe it ever. Like the folks who deny COVID as they’re dying of it. Or deny measles vaccines as their child dies of measles.